In my previous blog, I reported on my visit to the Sahara regional offices. It was this visit that highlighted the degree of competition between the Hindi and Urdu counterparts and the first (and probably last) time that I have been fought over by two newspapers. As I mentioned earlier, the fair stand was the initiative of Roznama, the Urdu language paper – they would use my presentation as a nice piece of co-branding , having attracted the western (white) professor to the stand. The journalism workshop, on the other hand, was the initiative of the Hindi language newspaper. They were just as enthusiastic to get photos and a story of the western professor in their edition the following day and would, therefore, gazump (gain a prior benefit over) their Urdu “colleagues”. Indeed, so concerned were the Roznama folks, that the very presentation of the “Go KiBS” workshop the next day was threatened. A deft piece of diplomacy on the part of Subho (and, I think, the intervention of the part of the Patna Regional Manager, telling the two groups to settle down) averted the potential disaster and we were able to both visit the regional offices and do the presentation the following day.
In the meantime, since I am interested in Views from a Room, please see below two photos from my Utsav Delux(e) hotel room, showing a little oasis and the context within which the oasis is situated. The other photo is a view from the KiBS booth of the crowds milling around.
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